Title :
High Power Pulse Compression with Soliton Delivery in Hollow-Core Photonic Bandgap Fiber
Author :
Gérôme, F. ; Knight, J.C. ; Clowes, J. ; Wadsworth, W.J.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Bath, Bath
Abstract :
Compression of chirped input pulses results in soliton propagation in hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers. 5.5 ps input pulses from a fiber laser at 1064 nm were compressed to 520 fs in 8 m of fiber, at 150 nJ pulse energies.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; fibre lasers; optical solitons; photonic band gap; chirped input pulses; fiber laser; high power pulse compression; hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber; soliton delivery; soliton propagation; wavelength 1064 nm; Chirp; Fiber lasers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Photonic bandgap fibers; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse modulation; Solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2007. LEOS 2007. The 20th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Lake Buena Vista, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0925-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-8081
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2007.4382524
